Try to avoid handling the paste any more than you need to or the warmth of your hands will draw the oil out of the almonds thus making the paste very difficult to roll out, persevere with this recipe as it is certainly worth it - its like eating very good biscuits....

This Pastry - Lining Paste Recipe  is a basic lining pastry, used for lining sweet tarts or pies. Easy to work with....

This Pastry - Sweet Paste Recipe is a typical pastry to use for anything sweet. Soft and pliable to work with and enriched with egg for fuller flavour and a softer finished product....

This Pastry - Sweet Short Paste Recipe  is a crumblier pastry, harder to work with but crisp biscuit like results....

This Cherry and Almond Tart recipe is divine, passed on to me by a good neighbour and fantastic home pastry cook. The pastry is crisp and biscuit like, while the almond filling light, moist and scrumptious, with the morello cherry,s topping it off to perfection. Save the juice from the...